My Surreal Night with Michael Jackson, Daily Beast, June 6, 2009
Pressing Acai for Answers, New York Times, March 11, 2009
What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods, New York Times, February 25, 2009
Flush Those Toxins! Eh, Not So Fast , New York Times, January 21, 2009
The Enlightened Path, With a Rubber Duck, New York Times, December 31, 2008
It’s Botox For You, Dear Bridesmaids, New York Times, July 24, 2008
Lasik Surgery: When the Fine Print Applies to You , New York Times, March 13, 2008
The Dating Coach Is In ($125/Hour), New York Times, September 27, 2007
Shades of Truth: An Account of a Kabul School Is Challenged , New York Times, April 29, 2007
Big People on Campus, New York Times, November 26, 2006
In a new academic field, is Rosanne Barr’s weight worth 3 credits?
Communal Yoga Mat: Beware of Germs, New York Times, July 27, 2006
Downward Dog. Staph Infection. Namaste.
The String That Binds, The Village Voice, August 11, 2004
The Kabbalah Center wants your heart and your money.
Vows: Lola Enders and Walter Weil, New York Times, March 14, 2004
He always knew that one day Lola Enders would become his bride, however Walter Weil never imagined he would need to wait until he was 93.
Survivor Meets Millionaire, and a Show Is Born, New York Times, October 19, 2003
If there’s one thing Mark Burnett, the executive producer of “Survivor” and “The Restaurant,” has learned in his decade in television, it is this: never let an opportunity slip away.
Girls with Guns, New York Post, August 18, 2002
Leslie Entin never planned on packing heat. Not as a kid growing up in Queens, not as vice president of Selection de Givenchy in Manhattan and certainly not after giving birth to her daughter Mia, who’s now 5.
Four Weddings And a Registry, New York Times, May 18, 2003
I have four weddings to attend this summer. My friends are thrilled about their pending ceremonies, but they seem equally excited, if not more so, about the gift registries.
A Hotel Stephen King Might Find Just Right, New York Times, July 23, 2002
For the weary business traveler, the new executive retreat and inn on the old Berry Hill plantation here has it all: meeting rooms, a fitness center, a dining room with world-class cuisine, a swimming pool, tennis courts…And ghosts. Lots of ghosts.
High-Tech Philanthropy in a Low-Tech Guatemalan Village, New York Times, June 4, 2000
It is an early evening on a hazy spring night, and a group of children are gathered on the shores of Lake Atitlán, eagerly awaiting the visit from Karin Stahl.
Can ‘Neurobics’ Do for the Brain What Aerobics Do for Lungs?, New York Times, October 3, 1999
Cognitive calisthenics aim to build quick wits.
I Want to Be a Chairborne Ranger: Boot Camp for the Office, New York Times, May 24, 1998
It’s Thursday afternoon, the rain is rattling rooftops and workers from the Vandor Corporation are huddled in a tent in the middle of nowhere, dressed in Army fatigues and combat boots.